The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead

Guibert, Christophe; Guibert, Gérôme

doi:10.4324/9781315742816-13

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“…These demographics are consistent with past studies of metal fans (e.g. Ury-Petesch, 2016;Guibert & Guibert, 2016).…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Parallels between religion and metal music culture have been drawn before. For example, metal musicians have been likened to shamans for their role in providing transcendent experiences to members of the metal music community (Weinstein, 1991: 88); metal fans use terminology consistent with transcendent religious experiences in their descriptions of live music (Coggins, 2016); and metal culture affirms a shared worldview and identity, which is shaped by a selection of attire, tattoos, dancing in a metal style (Snell & Hodgetts, 2007), and dressing in a 'uniform' way even outside of metal cultural events (Guibert & Guibert, 2016).…”

Section: The Nontheistic Sacred: Psychological Functions Of Metal Mus...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To ensure that the focus of this study would be nontheistic, we chose death metal music and culture, as its community is rather vocal about its secularism and distaste for theistic ideas (Purcell, 2015). We recruited death metal fans and selected as 'sacred stimuli' songs that are perceived as particularly special by the death metal community based on popularity during the formative years of the genre; for the control condition, we chose popular hard rock songs, which is a genre considered enjoyable by most metal fans (Guibert & Guibert, 2016). We expected that when listening to 'special' death metal songs versus listening to hard rock songs participants would report higher levels of perceived sacredness to the self and to the metal community, prosocial behavioral intention, positive affect, mood maintenance, social relatedness, and selfawareness, on the basis that previous research on the theistic sacred demonstrated these psychological effects (Pargament & Mahoney, 2005a;Mahoney, Pargament, & Hernandez, 2013).…”

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The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

Messick¹,

Jong²,

Mulukom³

et al. 2022

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Objective: To examine if the functions of the nontheistic sacred in a secular context are consistent with previous studies of the sacred in religious contexts. Methods: Two experiments examined the psychological functions of the nontheistic sacred within a secular context – metal music culture. The first experiment examined music as a form of nontheistic sacred through a comparison of death metal fans (n=89) listening to death metal or hard rock. The second experiment examined how some metal cultural artefacts were perceived as sacred by metal fans (n=52), and how their loss or defilement was experienced when compared to non-sacred artefacts.Results: The first experiment found that the death metal music was perceived as more sacred than hard rock music to the metal community, it promoted higher levels of positive affect, and it was associated with significantly higher levels of prosocial behavioural intentions, social relatedness, mood maintenance, and self-awareness, with no differences in empathy and negative affect. The second experiment found that acts of desecration of sacred items, when compared to non-sacred items, led to a higher state of anger and the loss of the items led to significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms and anxiety. Conclusions: The two experiments present evidence that the nontheistic sacred is experienced within the secular context of metal music in terms of functions and effects consistent with previous literature exploring the sacred in religious contexts.

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“…These demographics are consistent with past studies of metal fans (e.g. Ury-Petesch, 2016;Guibert & Guibert, 2016).…”

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Section: The Nontheistic Sacred: Psychological Functions Of Metal Mus...mentioning

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The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

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“…Dominguez-Nicolas developed the first custom-designed LF-ThMS device (Mexican patent pending by Dominguez-Nicolas SM, 2020) to modulate alternating current in a coil pair to generate low magnetic flux densities and magnetic hyperthermia for COVID-19 patients. Previous patents and experimental studies also induce magnetic hyperthermia, [21–24] but they reach up to 71 °C (160 °F), not suitable for our application. Instead, we employed an electronic circuit in our LF-ThMS device to limit the temperature and magnetic flux density levels up to 44 °C and 13.1 mT for safe use in the dorsal thorax of COVID-19 patients.…”

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Low-field thoracic magnetic stimulation increases peripheral oxygen saturation levels in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients

Domínguez-Nicolás

Manjarrez

2021

Medicine

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 may cause low oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) and respiratory failure in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Hence, increased SpO 2 levels in COVID-19 patients could be crucial for their quality of life and recovery. This study aimed to demonstrate that a 30-minute single session of dorsal low-field thoracic magnetic stimulation (LF-ThMS) can be employed to increase SpO 2 levels in COVID-19 patients significantly. Furthermore, we hypothesized that the variables associated with LF-ThMS, such as frequency, magnetic flux density, and temperature in the dorsal thorax, might be correlated to SpO 2 levels in these patients. Here we employed an LF-ThMS device to noninvasively deliver a pulsed magnetic field from 100 to 118 Hz and 10.5 to 13.1 milliTesla (i.e., 105 to 131 Gauss) to the dorsal thorax. These values are within the intensity range of several pulsed electromagnetic field devices employed in physical therapy worldwide. We designed a single-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study on 5 COVID-19 patients who underwent 2 sessions of the study (real and sham LF-ThMS) and 12 patients who underwent only the real LF-ThMS. We found a statistically significant positive correlation between magnetic flux density, frequency, or temperature, associated with the real LF-ThMS and SpO 2 levels in all COVID-19 patients. However, the 5 patients in the sham-controlled study did not exhibit a significant change in their SpO 2 levels during sham stimulation. The employed frequencies and magnetic flux densities were safe for the patients. We did not observe adverse events after the LF-ThMS intervention. This study is a proof-of-concept that a single session of LF-ThMS applied for 30 minutes to the dorsal thorax of 17 COVID-19 patients significantly increased their SpO 2 levels. However, future research will be needed to understand the physiological mechanisms behind this finding. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT04895267, registered on May 20, 2021) retrospectively registered. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04895267 .

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“…Some listeners enjoy the fast tempo and intensity of the music, and report that they do not pay much attention to the lyrical content of the music, while others enjoy that lyrics can reflect how they are feeling in a way that other music does not (Arnett, 1991; Thompson et al, 2019). Fans of such music featuring violent themes tend to be very committed and intense in their fandom, report strong social bonds with other fans, and often experience positive emotional outcomes from their listening experiences (Guibert & Guibert, 2016; Olsen et al, 2022). Such intense fandom may be, in part, because these same musical genres often elicit strong negative reactions from many, but not all, nonfans of this music.…”

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Understanding the attraction to music containing violent themes: A qualitative analysis.

Powell,

Olsen,

Davidson

et al. 2024

Psychology of Popular Media

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The Social Characteristics of the Contemporary Metalhead

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The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artefacts

Low-field thoracic magnetic stimulation increases peripheral oxygen saturation levels in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients

Understanding the attraction to music containing violent themes: A qualitative analysis.

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